Creating Neighborhoods while Utilizing the “Power of Sports”
Nineteenth Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020
～Movement toward the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games～
Decided to Hold Sport Climbing Academy Online on November 22!

October 12, 2020
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
Mitsui Fudosan Hotel Management Co., Ltd.

Tokyo, Japan, October 12, 2020—Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., a leading global real estate company headquartered in Tokyo, and Mitsui Fudosan Residential Co., Ltd. will hold the Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 on Sunday, November 22, 2020 as part of movement toward the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Mitsui Fudosan, a Tokyo 2020 Gold Partner in the category of Real Estate Development, will hold the Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 event, a sports classroom conducted in cooperation with the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Top-class athletes are invited to be instructors, and with their guidance participants learn and experience Olympic and Paralympic sport events.

The nineteenth event, a sport climbing academy, is the first online sports academy and will be held for a wide range of age groups, including students who lost the opportunity to take part in events due to the impact of COVID-19, with athletes Akiyo Noguchi and Miho Nonaka as instructors. The event will feature demonstrations by the athletes, who will pass on the gist of the sport and talk about training methods, as well as respond directly to questions from participants, enabling interactive communication.

Holding this kind of event online will contribute to continuing to foster enthusiasm for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Mitsui Fudosan Sports Academy for Tokyo 2020 events have been held from Nihonbashi, where Japan’s five major highways all started, to the Tokyo bayside Wangan area and in elementary and junior high schools and LaLaport facilities in areas where Mitsui Fudosan is engaged in urban development. Looking ahead, the plan is to hold events in places throughout Japan, including retail facilities that Mitsui Fudosan operates such as Tokyo Midtown, LaLaport and MITSUI OUTLET PARK. By enabling direct contact with top-class athletes, the Academy will create connections with many people, starting with the children living in those districts, and will vitalize urban communities, thereby creating a legacy that will continue into the future.